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On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
This vote and this proceeding could not be more consequential in light of what is at stake: whether women can decide when they want to have children and become pregnant; whether the people of America can decide whom they would like to marry; whether we drink clean water and breathe clean air; whether consumers are protected against defective products and financial abuses; and whether we have a real system of checks and balances or, alternatively, an imperial Presidency.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley outlines the critical issues at stake in the vote.

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